Finally... after a while of not competing I was drawn to put myself up against some others... the main reason I went was that we were able to convince Andrew to go and give it a shot. This is usually very good for a new piper to get enthused in the art, so in order to get him to want to go more I said I'd go. And somehow my saying I'd compete also meant I'd go up a grade as well... see, if you look at the bottom of this 'space' I put up a list of all my competitions ... and with the exception of like 2, I've competed in Grade III forever. So it probably was time for me to go up. Grade II... yoiks.
It was a good trip, stopped in Winnipeg on the Thursday night, drove to MooseJaw Friday, rested up and competed Saturday morning. We went to the park and wandered around for a while... only to find that they had moved it to the school a few blocks away... not cool. Once we got settled tho' it was kinda cool, get the adrenaline rush going... we all had to compete pretty early. But I got to watch Andrew compete and took some pictures. I then competed for my first time in Grade II for the Hornpipe/Jig. It was good.. thought I made a few blubs while playing. The judge was very cool after and we talked for a bit on how to improve etc... and then I heard the guy after me. He was good. We went down later to catch the score sheets and I saw that Andrew had gotten a bronze. Good for him! I then looked at my sheet... what's this 1st place?? No way!! I think I swore kinda loudly at that point. Awesome. Didn't do so well on my MSR, but can't win them all.
Next day at the Regina Games was also cool... I did the same in my MSR, but got all the way to the end of my Jig of the Hornpipe/Jig and missed half the bar and ended up getting a 'breakdown'. Crap... Andrew pulled out a 3rd place again for himself.
Just so you don't think I'm making this up, here's the official results.
It was a great weekend, and I really needed that injection of enthusisasm for piping again. Thanks to Deb for arranging it all.
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